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Census of Canada, 1971: Public Use Samples (ICPSR 7968)

Principal Investigator(s):Statistics Canada

Summary:

The Public Use Sample is a representative sample of
individual records from the 1971 Census of Canada Master File. The
primary sample size is one-in-one-hundred and the sample is
self-weighting. Data from the long-form questionnaire, or one-third
sample, were used to create these microdata files. To preserve
confidentiality, respondents were selected from nine provinces and two
Census Metropolitan Areas (CMA) with populations of 250,000 or
more. The provinces are Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New B... (more info)

The Public Use Sample is a representative sample of
individual records from the 1971 Census of Canada Master File. The
primary sample size is one-in-one-hundred and the sample is
self-weighting. Data from the long-form questionnaire, or one-third
sample, were used to create these microdata files. To preserve
confidentiality, respondents were selected from nine provinces and two
Census Metropolitan Areas (CMA) with populations of 250,000 or
more. The provinces are Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick,
Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British
Columbia. The CMAs are Montreal and Toronto. There are six data files
in this collection. For each of the two geographic categories,
province and CMA, there are three data files organized by record type:
Household, Family, and Individual. Parts 1 and 2, the Household Files,
contain the age, sex, birthplace, marital status, educational
attainment, income, occupation, and employment status of the household
head, as well as the number of people living in the household. There
is also information on the physical housing characteristics, such as
number of rooms and bedrooms, type of cooking and heating fuel used,
and rent and/or mortgage amounts. Parts 3 and 4, the Family Files,
contain the age, race, language, migration status, religion,
educational attainment, employment, income, and occupation of the
household head and wife, and number and ages of children in school or
not in school. Parts 5 and 6, the Individual Files, contain detailed
information on the household residents including age, sex, birthplace,
marital status, educational attainment, residential history, income,
occupation, and employment status. These two files also contain some
information on housing characteristics.

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Citation

Statistics Canada. Census of Canada, 1971: Public Use Samples. ICPSR07968-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07968.v1